Salut,

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:43:21AM +0200, Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz wrote:
> >Then I guess OS X ships a broken implementation of cp, yes?
> 
> Nope, GUI handles it perfectly. it's maybe 0.1% of users of MacOS that 
> acctually care about cp being broken.

Actually, there is a (non-GNU) free implementation of the fileutils on
MacOS/X  that treats  and  copies  the .DS_Store  entries  (or say  is
metadata aware).

And  even  though  I might  agree  on  that  the principle  of  having
per-directory  database files is  somewhat hacky,  it appears  to work
like a charm (As long as userland programs do care about it).

On Linux we have a solution that actually works just the same and is a
lot cooler. It's called POSIX extended attributes...

			    Tonnerre

PS. If you want to talk further  on the subject of how MacOS/X does it
and how I would do it using extended attributes, discuss it in private
mail with me, since MacOS/X isn't really Linux. And no, I don't want a
single daemon do  that, but I want it to  be a standard implementation
that libc and fileutils support.
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